History Trivia / Paramore

** "Ain't It Fun" managed to chart in a pop music environment extremely hostile to rock and even win the band their first UsefulNotes/{{Grammy|Award}}... by being extremely poppy.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For an ''album cover'', of all things. In November 2022, Paramore [[https://themusic.com.au/news/paramore-edit-classic-album-following-bassist-fallout/E0IPBwYJCAs/16-11-22 changed the cover of their self-titled album]] from an overexposed self-portrait of the band's 2013 lineup to a picture of Hayley with her back to the camera, with the words "GROW UP" spray-painted on the back of her jacket[[note]]This same image was the back cover for the vinyl edition[[/note]]. Supposedly, this was a TakeThat towards ex-bassist Jeremy Davis, who had previously sued the band back in 2015.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Ten years after Josh Farro left the group, he made a Facebook post equating homosexuality and pedophilia, to which Hayley made a statement implying that such types of rhetoric are why he was kicked out.

** "Ain't It Fun" managed to chart in an pop music environment extremely hostile to rock and even win the band their first Grammy... by being extremely poppy.
** Earlier on, "The Only Exception", which had been their biggest hit up to that point despite/because of being a much more subdued and gentle ballad.

** Hayley has said she no longer relates to "Misery Business" as she wrote the song when she was 17 and has since learned that no, people really ''do'' change. She even dropped the "Once a whore, nothing more" line during concerts to reflect that and briefly dropped the song altogether after 2018 due to Hayley considering the song to be rather misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she met other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. When Spotify put it on their "Women of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. However, the band would later renege on this promise in 2022, first after Music/BillieEilish requested Hayley perform it with her at Coachella and then [[https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/paramore-plays-misery-business-out-of-retirement after reflecting]] that the use of the word "whore" didn't constitute an endorsement of misogyny (and that most fans didn't ''really'' care either way).
** In June 2020, Hayley made it adamant on Twitter that she ''really'' doesn't like "The Only Exception". Given who the song was about, it's more than understandable. Although by 2023 it seems she has made peace with the song and has started to perform it again.

** ''All We Know Is Falling'' had a bit of this: Hayley's parents had divorced a few years earlier, bassist Jeremy Davis (temporarily) left the group just prior to recording, and most of the songs' lyrics reflected one of those events or the other in some way. The album cover was meant to reference Jeremy's departure and the fact that the band felt there was something missing without him -- it's an empty couch and the shadow of someone walking away.
** When Hayley released her first solo album ''Petals for Armor'', she admitted to going through a ''major'' breakdown after divorcing Chad Gilbert, losing a ton of weight, developing an alcohol addiction, etc. Furthermore, she revealed that her relationship with Chad was actually quite toxic in real life, and that she felt their marriage was a sham right from the beginning. Her breakdown definitely shows in the album's lyrics.

** Hayley and Josh dated in the early years of the band and broke up in 2007 just as the band was breaking into the mainstream. Its believed to be the root of some of the band drama in the following years.

* DyeHard: Think of Hayley Williams and you'll probably think of the hair first. She's claimed for a long time that it's hard for her to remember what color her hair really is anymore. And it would only be logical that she now [[https://www.gooddyeyoung.com/ runs her own hair dye company.]]
** Going into the ''After Laughter'' era, she bleached her hair and maintained a bright blonde tone (with occasional colored highlights; she's got a hair dye company to promote, after all). While she's dyed it blonde before, she said in an interview that she [[InvokedTrope wanted to give herself a "reset"]] after all the drama she experienced after the ''Self-Titled'' era.
** To mark the end of ''After Laughter'' and the next chapter of her life, she asked her hair stylist to dye her the one color she's ignored all these years; her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/Bng9AednFAr/?taken-by=yelyahwilliams natural hair color]].

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For an ''album cover'' of all things. In November 2022, Paramore [[https://themusic.com.au/news/paramore-edit-classic-album-following-bassist-fallout/E0IPBwYJCAs/16-11-22 changed the cover of their self-titled record]] from an overexposed self-portrait of the band's 2013 lineup to a picture of Hayley with her back to the camera, with the words "GROW UP" spray-painted on the back of her jacket [[note]]This same image was the back cover for the vinyl edition[[/note]]. Supposedly, this was a TakeThat towards ex-bassist Jeremy Davis, who had previously sued the band back in 2015.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Ten years after Josh Farro left the group, he made a Facebook post equating homosexuality and pedophilia, to which Hayley made a statement implying that this kind of thing is why he was kicked out.
* TeasingCreator: The band's official social media outlets as well as Hayley starting teasing Zac's return to the band in the lead-up to recording their fifth album. Hayley started to get a little [[TrollingCreator trollish]] when she posted videos of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmXgeIv28U her]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb2TQCx74eo playing drums]] instead. Zac eventually confirmed in an interview he is indeed recording drums for the album.

** In June 2020, Hayley made it adamant on Twitter that she ''really'' doesn't like "The Only Exception". Given who the song was about, it's more than understandable. Although by 2022 it seems she has made peace with the song and has started to perform it again.

** In June 2020, Hayley made it adamant on Twitter that she ''really'' doesn't like "The Only Exception". Given who the song was about, it's more than understandable.

** "Ain't It Fun" managed to chart in an pop environment extremely hostile to rock... by being extremely poppy. The song even won the band their first Grammy.
** Earlier on, "The Only Exception", which had been their biggest hit up to that point despite being a much more subdued and gentle ballad.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For an ''album cover'' of all things. In November 2022, Paramore [[https://themusic.com.au/news/paramore-edit-classic-album-following-bassist-fallout/E0IPBwYJCAs/16-11-22 changed the cover of their self-titled record]] from an overexposed self-portrait of the band's 2013 lineup to a picture of Hayley with her back to the camera, with the words "GROW UP" spray-painted on the back of her jacket [[note]]This same image was the back cover for the vinyl edition[[/note]]. Supposedly this is a TakeThat towards ex-bassist Jeremy Davis, who had previously sued the band back in 2015.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For an ''album cover'' of all things. In November 2022, Paramore [[https://themusic.com.au/news/paramore-edit-classic-album-following-bassist-fallout/E0IPBwYJCAs/16-11-22 changed the cover of their self-titled record]] from an overexposed self-portrait of the band's 2013 lineup to a picture of Hayley with her back to the camera, with the words "GROW UP" spray-painted on the back of her jacket. Supposedly this is a TakeThat towards ex-bassist Jeremy Davis, who had previously sued the band back in 2015.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For an ''album cover'' of all things. In November 2022, Paramore [[https://themusic.com.au/news/paramore-edit-classic-album-following-bassist-fallout/E0IPBwYJCAs/16-11-22 changed the cover of their self-titled record]] from an overexposed self-portrait of the band to a picture of Hayley specifically with her back to the camera, with the words "GROW UP" spray-painted on the back of her jacket. Supposedly this is a subtle TakeThat towards ex-bassist Jeremy Davis, who had previously sued the band back in 2015.

* OldShame: For Hayley, "The Only Exception" has become this, both for its sound and for its connection to her ex-husband.

** While they still played the song live for a long time, Hayley has said she no longer relates to "Misery Business" as she wrote the song when she was 17 and has since learned that no, people really ''do'' change. She even dropped the "Once a whore, nothing more" line during concerts to reflect that.
*** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation to their fans. When Spotify put it on their "Women of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it. Hayley would later perform the song again in 2022 at Coachella with Music/BillieEilish, but seemingly only at the younger artist's request. Paramore unretired "Misery Business" in October 2022 and started playing it again in concert.

*** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation to their fans. When Spotify put it on their "Women of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it. Hayley would later perform the song again in 2022 at Coachella with Music/BillieEilish, but seemingly only at the younger artist's request.

** "Ain't It Fun" managed to chart in an pop environment extremely hostile to rock. The song even won the band their first Grammy.
** Earlier on, "The Only Exception", which had been their biggest hit up to that point.

*** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation to their fans, because they thought the fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.

* CreatorCouple: Hayley was married to Chad Gilbert of Music/NewFoundGlory, and the two bands regularly went on tour together and Hayley made guest appearances on NFG songs. That's probably over with their separation, especially with the not-very-nice things Hayley has said about their relationship in hindsight.
** In the early years of the band Hayley and Josh dated, and broke up in 2007 just as the band was breaking into the mainstream. Its believed to be the root of some of the band drama in the following years.

* OldShame: For Hayley, "The Only Exception" has become this if [[https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/1277301243388612608 this tweet]] from her ranking of ''Brand New Eyes'' is anything to go by.

** When Hayley released her first solo album ''Petals for Armor'', she admitted to going through a ''major'' breakdown after divorcing Chad Gilbert, losing a ton of weight, developing an alcohol addiction, etc. Furthermore, she revealed that her relationship with Chad was actually quite toxic in real life, and that she felt their marriage was a sham right from the beginning.

* CreatorBacklash: While they still played the song live for a long time, Hayley has said she no longer relates to "Misery Business" as she wrote the song when she was 17 and has since learned that no, people really ''do'' change. She even dropped the "Once a whore, nothing more" line during concerts to reflect that.
** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation to their fans, because they thought the fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.
** In June 2020, Hayley made it adamant on Twitter that she ''really'' doesn't like The Only Exception. Given who the song was about, it's more than understandable.
* CreatorBreakdown: Narrowly averted; they canceled a series of concerts in February 2008 to deal with "personal issues" mostly stemming from, as with Music/NoDoubt in the 1990's, the rest of the band's resentment at the media focusing on Hayley Williams as the most important member of the group[[note]]The fact that Hayley and Josh split up may also have had something to do with it[[/note]]. They seem to have gotten past this quite handily, and even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d it in the lyrics to "Looking Up" from ''brand new eyes'': "God knows the world doesn't need another band/But what a waste it would have been/I can't believe we almost hung it up/We're just getting started." Turns out it was only a temporary Aversion, as the Farros quit in December 2010.
** Between the last Self-Titled tour and the making of ''After Laughter'', Hayley herself apparently [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere briefly quit the band]] to deal with her depression issues. She's repeatedly said in interviews that Taylor York convinced her that they could still make music together.
** Even their debut, ''All We Know Is Falling'', had a bit of this: Hayley's parents had divorced a few years earlier, bassist Jeremy Davis (temporarily) left the group just prior to recording, and most of the songs' lyrics reflected one of those events or the other in some way. The album cover was meant to reference Jeremy's departure and the fact that the band felt there was something missing without him: It's an empty couch and the shadow of someone walking away.
** When Haley released her first solo album ''Petals For Armor'' in 2020, she admitted to going through a ''major'' breakdown after divorcing Chad Gilbert, losing a ton of weight, developing an alcohol addiction, etc. Furthermore, she revealed that her relationship with Chad was actually quite toxic in real life, and that she felt their marriage was a sham right from the beginning.

** Going into the ''After Laughter'' era, she bleached her hair and maintained a bright blonde tone (with occasional colored highlights, she's got a hair dye company to promote after all). While she's dyed it blonde before, she said in an interview that she [[InvokedTrope wanted to give herself a "reset"]] after all the drama she experienced after the ''Self-Titled'' era.

* CreatorCouple: Hayley was married to Chad Gilbert of Music/NewFoundGlory, and the two bands regularly went on tour together and Hayley made guest appearances on NFG songs. That's probably over with their separation.

** Between the last Self-Titled tour and the making of ''After Laughter'', Hayley herself apparently [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere briefly quit the band]] to deal with her depression issues. She's repeatedly said in interviews that Taylor York convinced her to that they could still make music together.

** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation to their fans, because they thought fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.

** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation because they thought fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.

** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet & support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band, and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore. For a while, they were only performing it out of obligation because they thought fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.

** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its' messaging. As her relationship with womanhood grew with age and she got to meet and support other women in music, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band, and couldn't justify including it on their set lists anymore; only performing it out of obligation because fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.

** The song was eventually dropped for good in 2018, with Hayley saying their final 2018 show would be the last time the song would be performed for "a really long time". According to her, she considers the song too misogynistic in its' messaging, and as her relationship with womanhood and getting to know and support other women grew, she no longer felt comfortable performing the song or associating it with the band, only performing it out of obligation because fans wanted it. When Spotify put it on their "Women Of Rock" playlist, Hayley requested it be removed for this very reason. Since the playlist was about supporting women, it didn't feel right to her to have a song so clearly antagonistic towards other women on it.